T-hawk Wrote:One strategy for a coalition would be to allow each other to steal techs. Tech trading is off, but techs can be acquired by stealing at less than half of research cost, especially if teams cooperate to set up the biggest discounts. I don't know if anyone will think of it though.
Unless Whoisit has been kept in the loop about Kathlete's possible deals, he might be very annoyed when he hears Ottoman is going to let Slaze send his full stacks against him.
Quite frankly the allies haven't really done anything together since the original CoW and since then they have actively hindered one another for the most part. Even if they thought of using espionage to steal techs, the level of trust required for that just isn't there at the moment.
The one thing we can be thankful for is that HRE are producing more than 400 beakers at full research, so they may be able to provide some of the tech counterbalance to Spulla. If they can only start seriously co-ordinating with their allies.